Yellow Vests Becoming World Wide Movement

The Yellow Vest Movement that began in France, is spreading. It appeared also in Belgium and it spread to Canada as well. The French arrested
the leaders of the Yellow Vest Movement calling them an anti-government
charging them for organizing an unauthorized protest, as authorities
adopt a tougher approach to try to curb the demonstrations. During the
weekend of December 15th, mimicking the Yellow Vest movement in
France, protests have formed all over Canada. These are peaceful
protests, unlike in France, but they have continued every weekend in
various cities such as Toronto, Halifax, Edmonton, Saskatoon, Calgary
etc, especially in Alberta and Saskatchewan.

Alberta has long been known as the oil province of Canada and is
highly commodity driven. With NDP (New Democratic Party) preventing the
expansion of the TransMountain Pipeline
from Alberta’s Edmonton to BC’s Burnaby after the project has already
been approved by the federal government back in 2013, many people are
unemployed. With oil in Western Canada
(Western Canadian Select) hitting $11.43 a barrel in November, companies
simply cannot afford to stay in business. Combining this with the
announcement that the price of vegetables
increased 4%-6% as of January 1st, it’s no wonder that many Canadians are frustrated.

This is also apparent as Calgary voted a resounding NO on a bid for
hosting the 2026 Winter Olympics on November 13th. An estimate of $5.11
billion was announced with additional extra
costs which were never disclosed, people voted no to the increase the
taxation in order to pay for it. The wrong event at the wrong time and
people simply can’t afford to foot the bill.
Bottom line, too many taxes impact quality of life and no one will take to the streets when they are fat and happy.

What’s important here is that not only has Canada joined the Yellow
Vest Movement, but it’s still going strong every weekend, Christmas, New
Years, the protests against rising socialism
continue. Trudeau might have his work cut out for him before the next election in Canada in October 2019.